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The New York Comedy Festival unveiled its list of headlining acts for 2016, including Tracy Morgan, Marc Maron and Tig Notaro, all performing at Carnegie Hall; Dane Cook, Chris D’Elia, Trevor Noah, Patton Oswalt and Tim Minchin, all at the Beacon Theater; Bill Maher at The Theater at Madison Square …
Judd Apatow and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder were equally full of surprises this weekend at the Bonnaroo music and comedy festival in Tennessee. Apatow introduced Vedder as the surprise guest on his comedy showcase, and then informed the audience that Vedder had written a song in tribute to Apatow’s …
Nick Brazao is a producer with Just for Laughs, the world’s largest international comedy festival. He has been with the company since 2009, working on all of Just for Laughs’ festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Chicago and Sydney. Nick produces the Off-JFL club and theater shows for Montreal each July, and spearheads …
You may know Dan McCoy as an Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central and now still writing for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, but you probably hear him more often as the producer and co-host of The Flop House podcast talking about bad …
The 34th edition of Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, the world’s biggest comedy confab running from July 13-31, 2016, has announced its headliners for this summer. The industry ComedyPro section — including New Faces, panels, podcasts and awards — will happen July 27-30, 2016. Among the biggest events revealed so …
I told you last week that the audiences at the 2016 Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin loved the pre-show videos that screened before every live showcase, and here’s the video local sponsors Chaotic Moon Studios made for the occasion. It features a stand-up comedian getting back at a heckler with …
On TV last night, NBC broadcast a special tribute episode of Saturday Night Live for Prince — who died unexpectedly Thursday at 57 — including sketches of Fred Armisen impersonating Prince alongside Maya Rudolph as Beyonce. Over on HBO, Beyonce was dropping a surprise album of music videos. As for Rudolph, she was …
It’s one thing to say you’re going to “keep Austin weird.” It’s another to call your festival the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival, and five years in, be able to not only look back on all of the big names you’ve attracted and celebrate it via sizzle reel, but also …
The JASH YouTube channel has kept fairly quiet over the past six months, but its comedian members plan to remind you they’re live and breathing and still full of funny with a live and breathing and full of funny comedy and music festival. They’ve announced the first JASHFESHT Comedy Festival, happening April …
South By Southwest has filled out its 2016 feature film slate for SXSW, and a Robert Klein documentary directed by Klein himself will round out a comedy bill that’s quite meta. Last year, hit flicks Trainwreck and Spy both made their world premieres in Austin for SXSW. For 2016, the comedy movies …
